Are you an experienced supply chain professional and do you want to be an integral member of one of the fastest growing multinational pharmaceutical companies in Thailand? Novo Nordisk has opened a role for Supply Chain Manager, based in Bangkok, Thailand. Be part of our life-changing careers and apply now!

About the department

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company celebrating 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and abilities that also enable us to help people to defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases.

Novo Nordisk in Thailand has been working closely with the stakeholders for more than 40 years. Our purpose in Thailand is to defeat diabetes, obesity, and other serious chronic diseases, as it is globally. Novo Nordisk Thailand is certified as the “Best Place to Work in Thailand in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and Best Place to Work for Women in 2022”.

For us, it involves offering an inclusive and diverse working environment where everyone can bring their whole self to work. We believe that diversity and inclusion drive value for Novo Nordisk by enabling a diverse line of thought, increasing innovation and stronger risk management. These beliefs are core to who we are and an integrated part of our Novo Nordisk Way.

The position
This position directly reports to the Thailand Finance and Operations Director and has a dotted line reporting to the Region APAC Senior Supply Chain Director. In this role, you will be in charge of establishing and driving the supply chain strategy and operations in Thailand to ensure a mature supply chain setup, ensuring company product availability to patients across the country, efficient and compliant supply in coordination with stakeholders. The main scope of accountabilities includes but is not limited to:

• Demand planning; Establishing a sales forecast at material level including work on statistical baseline, analytics, and market trends. Driving and coordinating the monthly Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) review process with relevant stakeholders and ensuring the Operational Master Plan (OMP) is up to date and of the highest possible accuracy. Ensuring timely collaboration for launches of new products or others.

• Inventory management; Working with Supply Chain Centre of Excellence to ensure product availability and optimizing stock levels, ensure adequate local supply to all customers, to meet obligatory safety stock requirements. Managing stock expiration and minimizing scraping especially on launch orders, high value and slow runner products. Regularly review inventory policy and key supply parameters.

• Customer service & logistics; Responsible for relationship management and operations of distributors and 3rd party logistic providers (3PL) with well-defined service level and optimum cost. Securing on-time in-full products supply in local market and correct order management.

• Compliance/reporting/others; Ensuring documentation is produced and stored according to internal and external requirements. Ensure that all necessary and relevant Standard Operating Procedures related to supply chain are in place and executed in a timely manner and keeping track of quality and regulation requirements and ensuring company’s supply chain lives up to them. Ensuring timely reporting; daily orders and sales, quality-related activities and issues. Contact point for key stakeholders both internal and external. Proactive for any initiative or continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Economics, Business Administration, or related fields.

• Minimum of 8 years of working experience within supply chain management and/or similar. Experience in working in cross-cultural teams and cross-organisational stakeholder management.

• Successful track record in negotiating and setting up commercial relationships. Experience and deep knowledge in business planning and performance monitoring processes as well as the market dynamics and key stakeholders.

• Good communication in English both written and spoken. Thai language proficiency is a plus.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

Please send your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline

12 November 2023

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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